Studies on Hysteria

Hysteria, the Elusive Neurosis
By Alan Krohn
PASSIVITY AS AN EGO STRATEGY Shapiro made a vital contribution in elucidating how the hysterical character is passive . Rather than referring in a vague or stereotyped way to the passivity of the hysteric , Shapiro described the purpose ...
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-century Paris
By Asti Hustvedt
Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture ofSuffer— ing in France, 18404970. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. Busfield, Joan. Men, Women, and Madness: Understanding Gender and Mental Disorder.
Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media
By Elaine Showalter
Today, hysterical epidemics are not spread by viruses or vapors but by stories, narratives Showalter calls hystories that are created "in the interaction of troubled patients and sympathetic therapists... circulated through self-help books, ...
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon: Dispelling the Hysteria
By Scott Maruna
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon: Dispelling the Hysteria